| 单词 | literal |
| 释义 | literal (once / 245 pages) 1adj 2n To describe something as literal is to say that it is exactly what it seems to be. For example, if you put up a literal barrier to keep the world out, you've actually built a real wall. The background of literal includes the Latin litterālis, meaning "of letters or writing." This led to the sense of exactness, suggesting something is "to the letter." Many people misuse this word, as in "Listening to that dull teacher put me in a literal coma." Possible, but highly doubtful. WORD FAMILYliteral: literalise, literalism, literalize, literally, literalness, literals, nonliteral+/literalise: literalised, literalises, literalising/literalize: literalized USAGE EXAMPLES“Writing about happiness … you don’t want to be too literal about it,” says Timberlake, who also stars in the movie. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) In one of those movies, he’s a literal fighter. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) An overwhelming consensus is that the way in which protest music gets defined and discussed needs to become more flexible, more contradictory, less literal. The Guardian(Dec 15, 2016) 1 1adj limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text a literal translation Syn|Ant exact marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact denotative, explicitin accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term unrhetoricalnot rhetorical figurative, nonliteral (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech analogicalexpressing, composed of, or based on an analogy extendedbeyond the literal or primary sense metaphoric, metaphoricalexpressing one thing in terms normally denoting another metonymic, metonymicalusing the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated poeticcharacterized by romantic imagery synecdochic, synecdochicalusing the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it tropicalcharacterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense rhetoricalgiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought 2adj without interpretation or embellishment a literal depiction of the scene before him Syn exact marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact 3adj avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) it's the literal truth Syn plain not elaborate or elaborated; simple 4adj being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something 2"a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton Syn actual, genuine, real true consistent with fact or reality; not false n a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind Syn|Hyper erratum, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error error, mistake part of a statement that is not correct |
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